Maxims and Reflections, Paperback by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von, ISBN 1480015105, ISBN-13 9781480015104, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer,artist, and politician. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and color; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, and over 10,000 letters written by him are extant, as are nearly 3,000